mySimon Comparison Shopping Soon Available Wirelessly Through Neomar WAP Browser

E-commerce Featured on Neomar Mobile Portal Through Motient eLink Devices First, Research In Motion and Palm Devices Soon

Neomar, the leading provider of infrastructure services that enable wireless enterprise and business-to-business (B2B) applications, today announced that mySimon.com, the popular comparison shopping engine, will be available July 1 to users of the Motient eLink(SM) wireless device equipped with Neomar's WAP-based microbrowser. mySimon's wireless presence, mySimon To Go(TM), will be accessible through Neomar's mobile portal (www.neomar.com), and at wap.mysimon.com, enabling users of the Motient eLinkSM to browse, compare prices and shop for goods from thousands of on-line merchants.

Working in conjunction with mobile commerce application developer, ViaFone (www.viafone.com), Neomar provided the critical interface and the Neomar browser to enable eLink users to access the mySimon wireless site. ViaFone's professional services organization specializes in delivering mobile commerce sites and customizes the application for each wireless device upon which they are to be deployed, including PDAs and WAP phones.

"Busy people use mySimon To Go to quickly and easily comparison shop for -- and then purchase -- everything from computer hardware to books to gifts," said John McDowall, vice president of Engineering and CTO of mySimon. "With the Neomar browser on their PDA, mobile professionals are able to do this wirelessly, while on the road, untethered from their desks and a wired Internet connection."

Neomar's solutions are optimized for PDA devices because the large screens, overall interfaces, large memory capacity and ability to handle graphics combine to make an optimal platform to deliver business content and enterprise applications. Adding the mySimon comparison shopping functionality to the Neomar Mobile Portal, which currently includes a range of critical information from driving directions, weather and restaurants to stock quotes, is another milestone in Neomar's plan to deliver business-critical content and enterprise applications to mobile professionals using a variety of wireless devices, including the Palm(TM), Handspring Visor(TM), Research In Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM) BlackBerry(TM), and Motient eLink(SM) (Nasdaq:MTNT).

"Being able to comparison shop and purchase items through mySimon is becoming increasingly important to businesspeople who spend most of their time on the road," said Martin Buhr, vice president of Business Development at Neomar. "Making mySimon wirelessly accessible to mobile businesspeople ensures that they can be away from their desks but can still be productive and purchase needed items."

Neomar's microbrowser delivers content from partners specifically formatted for wireless devices using WML 1.1, the WAP equivalent of HTML. WAP is quickly becoming an important factor in developing wireless content by making it swift and simple to adapt Web content to handheld devices. As a result, Neomar's microbrowser gives users a secure, easy way to access important information. In addition, WAP is an open protocol, allowing the wireless development community to deliver WAP applications to customers. Along with first commercially available browser for PDAs, Neomar has developed an end-to-end WAP solution encompassed by a gateway, application server, and a portal.


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